a story for you, last summer i was visiting my sister in law in bangor north wales, my great niece and my son was playing golf on the front, well niece swung a real golf club and hit my son in the face with it, luckily just missed his eye but caught him on the eye brow, blood everywhere, gash 5 inches long and bone visible, we went to nearest bangor hospital, sat there for 3 hours, seen the doctor and she said do you wish a general anesthetic for it to be stitched, immediately i said no, i work for nhs myself and know unnecessary GA's are not good for anyone, she messed me about for a further 2 hours and referred me to a hospital in colwyn bay saying that there was no maxilla facial surgeon present to do the stitching, i said i was more than happy to go the extra hour after colwyn bay and go home to nearest hospital, she said no they are waiting for you, which fine they were, when i got there they wiped the floor with me for requesting an unnecessary GA, well you can imagine what i said, under no circumstances would i put my son under a GA if it was not needed, they just couldn't be bothered to stitch him up at bangor, if i hadn't have been so clued up i would have took the telling off instead i put in a complaint and the maxilla facial surgeon knew what i was talking about as it was my field of work but i wondered how many people had been sent there unnecessarily .
kerri
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